{"product_id":"the-fellowship-of-the-ring-lord-of-the-rings-9780395272237","title":"The Fellowship of the Ring (Lord of the Rings)","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Fellowship of the Ring (Lord of the Rings)\u003c\/strong\u003e by J.R.R. Tolkien. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780395272237.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkiens three-volume epic, is set in the imaginary world of Middle-earth -- home to many strange beings, and most notably hobbits, a peace-loving \"little people,\" cheerful and shy. Since its original British publication in 1954-55, the saga has entranced readers of all ages. It is at once a classic myth and a modern fairy tale. Critic Michael Straight has hailed it as one of the \"very few works of genius in recent literature.\" Middle-earth is a world receptive to poets, scholars, children, and all other people of good will. Donald Barr has described it as \"a scrubbed morning world, and a ringing nightmare world...especially sunlit, and shadowed by perils very fundamental, of a peculiarly uncompounded darkness.\" The story of this world is one of high and heroic adventure. Barr compared it to Beowulf, C.S. Lewis to Orlando Furioso, W.H. Auden to The Thirty-nine Steps. In fact the saga is sui generis -- a triumph of imagination which springs to life within its own framework and on its own terms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Houghton Mifflin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44986808827957,"sku":"ByrdShop_0395272238","price":59.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780395272237_bbd82bcf-3f3c-437d-93d1-d5409847a44d.jpg?v=1792795409","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-fellowship-of-the-ring-lord-of-the-rings-9780395272237","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}